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Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American minimalist artist identified with the movement of Monochrome painting or meditative art. His works are often characterized by Abstract Expressionist brushwork in a white or off-white color painted on square canvas or metal surfaces.

Robert Ryman

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Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. The majority of his works feature abstract expressionist-influenced brushwork in white or off-white paint on square canvas or metal surfaces. In 1992, a major touring retrospective of Ryman's paintings was mounted by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1994.


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http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_140.html

"Sign Here!" by Mary Haus ArtNews Summer 2004 Some artists’ signatures are self-expression, some are design elements, and some are just fun http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1557

Another artist whose name came up several times in conversations about signatures and abstraction was Robert Ryman. Sandler and Temkin both note that Ryman has often worked his signature or elements of a signature into a composition. When asked about an untitled 1958 painting that prominently features “R RYMAN” going up the right-hand side, Ryman explained, “At that time, and even later, I would do that sometimes, usually going up the side, not the bottom, because going up the side made it more abstract. Because I felt paintings usually were signed, traditionally. I thought by signing up the side rather than along the bottom, I could use it as a compositional element and as line. There were also some instances in the early ’60s where I would sign something two or three times on the front in various places, there again as line, and sometimes not so much as line but as visual compositional points to move the eye around.”

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Robert Ryman
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Known forPainting
MovementMonochrome painting, Minimalism

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